On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 10:53:25PM +1200, Hamish wrote: > Moritz wrote: > > Hamish and Frankie, > > > > What is the current status of packaging 6.4.4 for debian ? > > Hi, sorry for the delay, I've been largely out of the office for the > last couple of weeks. > > > Mainly notes to Frankie, but may as well cc everyone to keep y'all in > the loop: > > > As far as updates needed to the packaging files it's just dch to bump > the version number, and as far as I can tell the barscale_ui and > svn-any-version patches have been incorporated and are no longer needed. > > I've been building test packages since before release and AFAICT all > seems well. We might need to keep an eye on the grass64.desktop file to > make sure it gets included, but I think that's perhaps ok since the > debian package does is not using 'make install'. > > > The unpacked tarball lives in DebianGIS's git repo, > http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-grass/grass.git/ > > (with the notable addition of a debian/ dir) > > generally for this I think it is better for one person to drive the car > at a time, so I let Frankie do the tarball swap-out part and then do > any of my extra edits to the debain/ dir once the foundation is in > solidly place. > > Others are threatening to commit over the top of our work on alioth > right now and I'd rather pull in their patches than have to revert > them, so we should perhaps get onto this soon... :-) > > @Frankie, a dependency on libgdal-dev (>= 1.10.0-0~) snuck into the > control file recently, can we just remove the versioning? AFAIK it's > not actually needed and it makes backports to wheezy and the ubuntu > LTSs that much more of a pain. Also if there isn't a hard API reason > for needing the new version, explicitly stating it there can be > deceptive since it indicates that there is. (even friendlier for > backports: "libgdal-dev | libgdal1-dev,") >
Those changes can be easily added to allow easy backports. > > > Anything we can do to help ? > > The highly time critical thing right now is to get the new package in > ubuntugis's unstable repo in the next few days so the osgeo live dvd > can ship the right version for the Portland OR FOSS4G conference. We > need to send the final to the printers soon. If it comes down to it, I > can manually override with my self-built packages but I worry that the > qgis 2.4 grass-plugin package would then need to be rebuilt too. So it's > better to do it in the common ubuntugis PPA where those things will > automatically resolve themselves. In general I feel it better to > let the changes flow downstream from debian/unstable instead of letting > things get the order of progression get mixed up downstream and all the > splintering confusion and lost edits that go along with that, but the > timing might necessitate an exception to that.. > Seb has a package, to avoid stepping on toes I think that might be the > first upload to ubuntugis's PPA. > I just have a very short personal time window to complete the grass upgrade, else that and other things willbe done in the second half of August. -- Francesco P. Lovergine _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
